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( No Model.)

. G. H.;INGERSOLL.

GATE.

No. 374,742. M Patented Dec. 13, 1887.

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GUS HOOKER INGERSOLL, OF FRANKTOWN, COLORADO.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,742, dated December 13, 1887.

Application filed March 10, 1887. Serial No. 230,291. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUs HOOKER INGER- soLL, of Franktown, in the county of Douglas and State of Colorado, have invented a new and Improved Gate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to gates of that class adapted to be opened and closed by the wheels of passing vehicles, and has for its object to provide a simple inexpensive gateof this character which may be opened from the ve- "hicle while horses are traveling either way toas hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification,

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved gate shown closed, the mechanism for operating it by passing vehicles, and a por the gate-latch and adjacent part of the latchpost.

The gate proper, A, is made with stiles a. a,

connected by rails a cflwhich converge some what from the stile a to the stile a. To the stile a wires B are connected, and these wires range lengthwise of the gate and are attached to eyes 0 on the ends of screw-bolts O, fitted on the stile a, and having nuts 0 at the back of this stile, allowihg the wires to be drawn up tightly at any time by screwing up the nuts to prevent sagging of the gate.

At the upper end of the stile a is fixed a hinge-pin, D, which passes through a bearing in the end of a bracket, E, fixed to the adjacent hinge-post F, and a nut, d, fitted on the pin D, sustains quite the full weight of the gate on this bracket, to relieve the gate-operating sill-plate, K, on the ground.

thepinion G is in vertical alignment with the upper hinge-pin, D, of the gate. bar H,which engages the pinion G, is fitted to slide in a groove or between ways on the sill- ;plate K, and is held to place by the pressure ;of a spring, L, which is held at one end to the hinge-post F and bears by its free end on the rack-bar, and a screw, M, threaded into a lugnut, m, held to the post F, may be setdown :more or less to regulate the pressure of the spring on the rack-bar.

pinion G and rack-bar H below the bracket E of the weight of the gate, and consequently facilitate the operation of the gate, as herein- .after more fully explained. To the lower end toothed wheels or pinion G, and this pinion is pivoted on astrong pin orbolt, g, to a suitable The pivot g of The rack- Cranked rods are arranged, two at each side of the gate, along the roadway, and two of the I rods, N O, nearest the gate are made alike,with

two cranks, n n and 0 o, projecting in opposite directions from the axis of motion of the rods, which are j ournaled in eyes or staples n 0, respectively driven into double -inclined blocks P R, set in the roadway in the path or track of vehicles, and the other two rods, S T, which are journaled at s t at points beyond the rods N O at opposite sides of the gate, are made with crank-arms s s and 25 t which project in the same manner from the axis of the rods.

The extremities of the cranks n 0 of the rods N O are connected to opposite ends of the rackbar H bylight pull rods or wires UV, respectively, and the cranks s t are connected to the ends of the cranks n 0 bylight pull-rods u o,

guided in suitable eyes, a 'v, on the ground.

provided with curved slots 3/, through which the end parts of a keeper, pass into the gatestile, thereby holding the latches to place and allowing them to swing upward on their pivots as their lower inclined edges ride over the lug w on the post W, it being understood that when the gate closes from one side the latch Y will be lifted and the latch Y will strike against the lug and hold the gate until the latch Y falls at the other face of the lug, and when the gate closes from the other side the latch Y will be raised to fall in front of the lug when the latch Vvstops the gate by contact with the lug. Latch-posts W W are set at the side of the roadway at opposite sides of the gateway, and have similar lugs,w, which the gate-latch es Y Y engage for holding the gate open. The post W is shown broken awayin Fig. 1 of the drawings to give a betterview of the latches engaged with the post-lug. The latches may have outwardly-extending arms 3 (shown in Fig. 4,) for convenience of horsemen,who may depress the arms with the foot to unlatch the gate.

The operation ofthe gate is as follows: When the gate is closed, the cranks of the rods N 0 range vertically and the cranks of the rods S T range horizontally or lie flat, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. A vehicle approaching the gate A in direction of the arrow 1 will or may pass over the crank s of the rod S, but will strike the upright crank it"; of rod N, which will draw on the rod U and pull the rack-bar H toward the vehicle, and

. this movement of the rack-bar will turn the pinion G and throw or carry the lower hingepin, I, of the gateA one-quarter around, which will first operate to raise the outer end of the gate to lift the latch-bars Y Y from the postlug w, as in dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the gate, then leaning outward or forward at the top, will at once swing open-from the horses by its gravity and will latch open automatically to the lug w on the farthest post, W. The aforesaid endwise movement of the rackbar had drawn upon the rods V v to lower the cranks o 0 of the rod 0 flat and raise the cranks t f" of the rod T to vertical positions, so that as the vehicle passes through the gateway its wheels may ride over the crank 0 without eifect on the gate or its mechanism, and the wheels will strike and lower the crank-arm t of rod T, thereby pulling on the rods 0 V to draw the rack-bar back to or past its first position, and this first effects a lifting of the outer end of the gate to unlatch it from the post W, and then throws the gate so it swings back by its gravity alone to the post W, where it is latched closed to the lug w thereon. A vehicle approaching the gate from the other direction, or that of the arrow 2, will ride over the lowered crank it of the rod T without effect on the gate or its mech-.

anism, and will strike and turn down the crank 0' of the rod 0, which will draw on the rod V to pull the rack-bar H endwise and cause the gate first to lift for unlatching from the post W and swing open from the vehicle by its gravity to the post W, to latch automatically with the lug w thereon, and this movement of the rack-bar lowers the crank n of the rod N and raises the crank s of the rod S, so that the vehicle, in passing over said crank s,will return the rack-bar'H and cause the gate to swing shut again to the post W behind the vehicle.

It will be noticed that the arrangement of the cranked rods is such that the gate always opens from the horses; hence it does not frighten them, and also that the gate is operated by a pulling or drawing on the rack-bar, thus allowing light and inexpensive rods or wires to be used to connect the cranked rods with the rack-bar; Furthermore, there are no delicate springs or other parts liable to be broken or to get out of order, and the gate may be opened and closed easily and safely by wheels of vehicles traveling in either direction.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the gate A and hinge-post F, of a hinge-pin, D, on the gate, a bracket, E, on the post, a rack-bar, H, a pinion, G, pivoted at g in vertical alignment with the pin D, engaging the rack H, and carrying a plate, J, and a pin, 1, fixed to the gate and journaled in the outer end of the plate J, substantially as shown and described, whereby as the rack-bar is moved endwise the gate will be lifted at the outer end and opened by gravity, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the gate A,hingepost F, pin D, bracket E, a rack-bar, H, a pinion, G, pivoted at g in alignment with pin D and engaging the rack-bar H and carrying a plate, J, and a pin, 1, on the gate andjournaled in the outer end of the plate J, of-a spring, L, held to the post F and bearing on the rack-bar, substantially as shown and described. I

3. The combination, with the gate A,hingepost F, pin D, bracket E, rack-bar H, a pinion, G, pivoted at g in alignment with the pin D and engaging the rack-bar H and carrying a plate, J, and a pin, I, on the gate, journaled in the outer end of the plate J, substantially as specified, of pull-rods U a V 2), connected to opposite ends of the rack-bar H, transversely-journaled rods N 0, set one at each side of the gate and having reverselyset cranks n n 0 0, respectively, and connected to the rods U' u V v, and transversely-ranging rods S T, journaled one at each side of the gate and beyond the rods N 0, said rods S T having similarly-set cranks s s t t, respectively, and connected to the rods'U a V 11, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

GUS HOOKER INGERSOLL.

Witnesses:

AMOS O. MIKsoH, SAMUEL M. DYER.

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